Cosmos #13 Who Speaks for Earth

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences,University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

---

• Biblical Verse - "Choose Life that thou may live"
• Lituya Bay - Tlingit meet la Peyrouse (July 1786)
• 1957 Tidal Wave
• Culture Shock?Compare to Aztecs and Spaniards
• Dangerous Evolutionary Baggage"
• Cannot see boundaries from space(Beethoven 7th) Actually not true. Their very artificiality makes them easy to see.
• Dream of Civilization Destruction
• "Accepted products of science - rejected methods"
• "Easy to make"
• Can steal material
• Home handicraft Industry
• All bombs of WWII = 2 megatons
• 1 bomb = WWII in a single small area
• Each side probes limits of others' tolerances
• ~$500 billion on military expenditures
• "Clearly on the Edge of Failure" ???
• "Fundamental Restructuring"
• What kind?
• Library of Alexandria
• Why did it fail?
• No record of challenge to society
• No application - sharing with public
• "When the mob came"
• Hypatia (370 - 415 AD)
• Slavery as scapegoat?
• Recap of Cosmic Evolution(Beethoven 7th)
• Recap of Course Themes
• Sagan's view of Science
• No Sacred Truths
• Arguments from Authority are worthless
• Anything not in agreement with facts must be scrapped
• "These are some of the things H atoms do given 15 B.Y. of time."
• Library of Alexandria
• Cosmos = order in universe
• Chaos
• Ptolemy
• HypatiaWhy didn't science "take off" in Roman times?
• Tragedy of destruction of Classical Civilization
• "Dark Ages" - Renaissance
• Ready - awaken from long sleep
• Cosmic Calendar1 day = 1.25 by1 min = 30,000 yr1 sec = 500 yr

Return to Cosmos Index

Return to Professor Dutch's Home Page

Created 13 January 1998, Last Update 11 January 2020